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Personal Services: Raspberry Pi Zero Setup

Getting Personal Services working on a Raspberry Pi Zero

I will document here how I have got my Raspberry Pi Zero working with Personal services.
I want my Raspberry Pi Zero to work in the followin way:

Headless - not connected to a monitor or TV

Battery Powered

Connected to my WiFi network

Items I used in solution

Raspberry Pi Zero

I wanted to get this set-up without doing any soldering

32Gb SD card (class 10)

32Gb is more than I needed, and I went for a class 10 card as it is higher quality and faster.

Pi compatible WiFi Adapter

MicroUSB to USB lead

This is needed to connect the WiFi Adapter - I used the one I got when I subscribed to the raspberry pi magazine.

Mobile phone portable power pack

One of those cheap power packs for giving a phone an emergency charge. It came with a microUSB adapter. I don't know how long it would last.

Preparing the SDCard

Using my main laptop I downloaded the latest version of Raspbian and installed it on the SD card.

Configuring Raspbian and connecting to WiFi Network

I did not want to do any soldiering on the Pi Zero which means it is impossible to connect to it with a TTL cable. This makes it hard to get a console to the Pi as my wifi network requires a password. To get round this I opted to use a spare Raspberry Pi 2 I had to set the SD card up.
The following steps achieved this.

Get Raspberry Pi 2 and remove any components it has plugged into it (USB plugs, HDMI connector, SD card